SNEG I SMRT: KAKO ISPRIPOVEDATI NEISPRIPOVEDIVO

Abstract

Methodologically speaking, the paper applies the deconstructive semiological analysis to three stories written by American authors: “Silent Snow, Secret Snow” by Conrad Aiken, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway, and “Snow” by John Crawly. Such approach opened the following questions: the semiological and ideological status of snow in the mentioned texts, possible manifestations of the sign’s polysemy within the context of Twentieth-Century American short fiction, and, consequently, validity of the claim that “snow”, being highly semantically ambiguous and dispersive, is a sign of the aporetic nature of humanist ontological conceptions and literature as a whole.